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The first that we know of was Aristarchus of Samos, about 2400 years ago. His ideas were not widely accepted, and Aristotle's concept of an Earth-centered universe was adopted.
Albert Einstein.Related Information:Einstein who's General Theory of Relativity and Principle of Equivalence (see links below), suggests that curved space/time, defines the universe as geodesic and may have no actual center. So Earth, like everything else in our universe, exists on its geodesic plane and not at its center.The death of the theory of an Earth-centered universe began when Copernicus first suggested that Earth was not even the center of our solar system. Though this idea was not well received at the time, it was later confirmed by the classic observations and calculations of GalileoThe answer of Albert Einstein fails to account for the fact that the center of the universe question was answered well before Einstein was born.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans were the first to assert that mathematical harmony could be found in the universe's underlying structures. They believed that numbers and mathematical relationships were at the core of all aspects of the universe, which they called the harmony of the spheres.
Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the concept of a sun-centred universe in the 16th century.
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The first that we know of was Aristarchus of Samos, about 2400 years ago. His ideas were not widely accepted, and Aristotle's concept of an Earth-centered universe was adopted.